in His right hand seven stars These stars are the seven angels of the churches as explained in Revelation 1:20 . The picture of the stars being withi...
SATAN, SYNAGOGUE OF The expression occurs neither in the Hebrew nor in the Greek of the Old Testament, nor in Apocrypha. Three passages in the Old Tes...
Curse, Accursed In the Old Testament being cursed includes loss of everything significant and a lowering to the most menial of positions. The serpent ...
To understand the Campaign of Armageddon, we need to grasp the full sweep of the pattern of rebellion against God which characterizes the history of ...
he who overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? keeps my works Jesus spoke of the need for endurance, especially as lawlessness would abound and the love ...
Marriage [N] [T] [E] [S]An intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. Th...
Remnant Leftovers or remainders, whether of daily food ( Ruth 2:14 Ruth 2:18 ), food at the Passover ( Leviticus 7:16 Leviticus 7:18 ), anointing oi...
Condemnation [T]From the standpoint of semantics, condemnation is part of legal terminology. When it is discovered that a crime has been committed, th...
Hospitality [N] [T] [S]Hospitality plays no small role in the realm of biblical ethics. Biblical admonitions exhorted the Israelites and the early Chr...
Priest, Christ as The Old Testament. The priestly activity of drawing near to God in sacrifice and prayer is introduced in the Old Testament through A...
In studying the book of Revelation, one is immediately struck by the prevailing bias of many commentators against understanding numbers in their norm...
Levite [E]Pentateuch. The Hebrew word for Levite (lew) indicates a descendant of Levi, the son of Jacob and Leah ( Gen 29:34 ). There were three famil...
you are about to suffer The Smyrnaeans were about to enter a time of testing. God often warns his servants prior to a time of trial (Eze. Eze. 2:3-7;...
Sexuality, Human Foundations This essay is based on the following premises: (1) Those functions founded in the unfallen created order that God proclai...
EFESIOS 2DIVISI?N DE P?RRAFOS EN LAS TRADUCCIONES MODERNASReina-Valera 1960(RV-1960)New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)Dios Habla Hoy(DHH)Biblia Jerusa...
Divorce [N] [T] [E] [S]Perversion of the marriage institution. Marriage was ordained by God as an intimate and complementing union between a man and a...
Homily XXXI.Homily XXXI. Hebrews xii. 14.-Follow peace with all men, and holiness,(1) without which no one shall see the Lord.[1.] There are many thin...
SANTIAGO 2:1-26Divisi?n de los p?rrafos en traducciones modernasReina Valera 1960RV-1960La Biblia De Las Am?ricas(LBLA)Dios Habla HoyDHHBiblia Jerusal...
Covenant [N] [E] [S]The word covenant, infrequently heard in conversation, is quite commonly used in legal, social (marriage), and religious and the...
Hell [N] [T] [E] [S]Place of God's final retributive punishment. Scripture progressively develops this destiny of the wicked: the Old Testament outli...